Spider Man: Shattered Dimensions with Bonus Art Concept Book

3 Review to this product

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  shawn gorsuch
  October 9th, 2010 on 4:50 pm

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  playing as 4 different type of spiderman is awesome. the graphics and levels look real cool. cool boss fights. swinging can takn getting use to. sometimes the camera is kinda bad but not bad enough to keep you from playing. finally they make a level based spiderman game. i hate open world. if your a spiderman fan check it out .
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  Ben B. Carandang
  October 9th, 2010 on 7:36 pm

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  So here it is another spider man game. What can you expect from this web crawler who comes out with half way decent games. So let me give you a run down. The spider man game for the ps1 was great, the spider-man movie games for the ps2 were ok. The spider man 3 movie game was just plain horrible, the spider man web of shadows was fantastic for an open world game with an original plot.

  Hence we finally get to this one. Other than 4 different takes on the spider-man universe, this game is actually pretty good. The game controls takes about a couple of mins to get used to, but it’s very simple to control. If you played one spider man game you played them all similar to madden.

  The thing they took away from this game is the game’s open world idea. The game is broken down into levels similar to Transformers war for cybertron. The boss fights are fun to play.

  With each different spider-man universe you play, brings in different modes of play and its own villians.

  Pick up and play this game. It’s a good times for any die hard marvel fan.
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  Mark B. Warner
  October 9th, 2010 on 9:13 pm

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  This was an ambitious game for any developer. Four fully fleshed out universes for Spiderman, each with its own art aesthetic, enemies, moves, abilities, and so on. There are some excellent (and not so excellent) Spiderman games in the license’s history that set a decently high bar. This game could almost have cleared that bar, but a few issues are weighing it down, and it took the bar in the face at high speed instead.

  The biggest issue is with the controls, which is doubly a letdown because the developers started out on the right track by not fixing what wasn’t broken and sticking with the excellent and intuitive control conventions established for Spiderman in previous titles (I became familiar with them in Web of Shadows). Hold RT to swing, hold another button to quickly pop up and gain altitude, hold A to increase swing speed (and thus momentum), and so on. The attacks are similarly familiar to console Spiderman veterans with light and heavy attacks, parries, web strikes, web shots, and etc. Unfortunately, something’s gone wrong with this title. The controls are muddy and unresponsive, where in Web of Shadows, the controller felt like an extension of your hands. The camera careens about madly when you’re locked onto an enemy, often putting your viewpoint in awkward and uncomfortable areas at best, and inside level geometry at worst, blinding you entirely. There is one particular Battletoads-esque sequence with a sniper rifle, and let’s just say that Battletoads did it a lot better. Sorry guys.

  The art in this game is fantastic. Each area has something going for it (although I wasn’t a huge fan of the 2099 environment, it wasn’t BAD, just not my style). The cel shaded Amazing Spiderman universe has got to be my favorite, just barely edging out the Spiderman Noir universe.

  I thought the linear gameplay might hinder this title, since I’m a sandbox game fan through and through, but it really doesn’t. The environments are varied and interesting. Well built and rendered. It’s a very pretty game. Younger kids (though I recognize it’s a T rated title) would probably love it. It’s got action, it’s got superheroes, it’s got super villains, bright colors, and eventually, in most cases, a dedicated round of button mashing will win the day. Spiderman will do all sorts of impressive looking things just by chaining various button combinations with or without a lot of deliberate thought. You can get fancy and flourishy if you want to, but it isn’t truly necessary outside of a few gated challenges. This is no problem in a beat-em up. It’s fine. I welcome this style gameplay. Web of Shadows is among my favorite games, and this title continues the tried-and-true formula.

  The developer bit off a lot with this title, and I think it turned out to be more than they could chew. The game feels unpolished and unoptimized. It needed a few more months to cook with a couple of experienced XBOX 360 developers who could have tweaked the performance and gotten better control response out of the engine.

  The environments are top notch. The gameplay is well considered. The plot, is, well, it’s Marvel Spiderman camp, and that’s GREAT. It reminds me of Superfriends on saturday mornings in the Fall at my grandma’s house in my Dukes of Hazzard pajamas. Rubbery control response and an erratic camera make it a bargain bin purchase or a rental.